It was a pleasure and a great honour to be asked to write the introduction to the new Oxford Children’s Classics edition of The Wind in the Willows, which is one of my favourite children’s books and has had a very real significance in my own life.
INTO THE RED
Into the Red is a collaboration between 70 authors and 70 artists with a single goal: to raise funds to support conservation work aiming to reverse the decline of our most at-risk birds. Contributors include Nick Hayes, Nicola Davies, Jess French, Isabella Tree, Richard Mabey, Amir Khan, David Gray, Jim Moir, Harriet Mead, Brigit Strawbridge, Mackenzie Crook, Megan McCubbin, and many others besides me.
Each writer is allotted an endangered bird to write about and paired with an illustrator.
I had the privilege of my words about the Starling sitting beside an incredible illustration of the bird by Ben Rothery.
Profits from the sale of this book are donated to BTO and The Rare Breeding Birds Panel to further their work on Red-listed birds. If you love birds, you’ll love this book. GET YOUR COPY HERE.You can get your copy here.
CHILDREN'S WRITERS' AND ARTISTS' YEARBOOK 2022
It was my great pleasure to write the foreword to the Children’s Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook 2022. This book helped me find my agent and a publishing contract for Beetle Boy. If you are a budding children’s author, then this book is one you need on your shelf.
THE BOOK OF HOPES
Children’s author Katherine Rundell has pulled together an anthology of work from over a hundred children’s illustrators and authors to create this uplifting anthology called The Book of Hopes.
You can find my piece on page 92. It is called Consider the Dung Beetle and is accompanied by an illustration of a scarab by Carim Nahaboo.
A digital edition is freely available on the Literacy Trust website and a print edition will be published in the autumn of 2020.
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PIP AND THE UMBRELLA ROOM
Pip and the Umbrella Room is the third of three short books M. G. Leonard has written for students of English.
Commissioned by German education publisher Klett, Pip and the Umbrella Room is aimed at beginner level readers of English as a foreign language.
THE OLD STEAM TRAIN
The Old Steam Train is the second of three short books M. G. Leonard has written for students of English.
Commissioned by German education publisher Klett, The Old Steam Train is 10,000 words long and aimed at confident readers of English as a foreign language.
SPIDER WIG
Spider Wig is the first of three short books M. G. Leonard has written for students of English.
Commissioned by German education publisher Klett, Spider Wig is 10,000 words long and aimed at confident readers of English as a foreign language.
“What are you afraid of? Morris knows exactly what scares him: Calvin the school bully has threatened to hammer him into the ground today. And all for translating his name from Latin into English…”
MAKE MORE NOISE!
Make More Noise! is a collection of new short stories, from ten of the UK's best storytellers, celebrating inspirational girls and women, published in 2018 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the UK.
M. G. Leonard’s short story, The Bug Hunters, is about a girl called Sofia who is bullied for loving bugs.
Features stories by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, M. G. Leonard, Patrice Lawrence, Katherine Woodfine, Sally Nicholls, Emma Carroll, and more!